WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. JUNE
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The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars. (19. June 1179)

King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. (19. June 1269)

The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. (19. June 1306)

English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America. (19. June 1586)

Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion. (19. June 1770)

Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (19. June 1816)

Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia). (19. June 1821)

The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. (19. June 1846)

Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. (19. June 1850)

The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford. (19. June 1862)

Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth. (19. June 1865)

Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro. (19. June 1867)

The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins. (19. June 1875)

The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. (19. June 1910)

The Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded. (19. June 1911)

Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented. (19. June 1913)

The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). (19. June 1934)

World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. (19. June 1944)

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. (19. June 1953)

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom. (19. June 1961)